New queer rights around the world : 2023 edition 🏳️🌈✨️🏳️⚧️
Finland : adopted a law to facilitate transition, no longer requiring sterilization or psychological evaluations
Hong Kong : ruled in favor of the change of one’s gender identity without requiring surgery
Spain :
no longer requires a medical advice to transition
lowered the minimum age required to transition to 16 (12-13yo will need a judge’s authorization and 14-15yo will need to be accompanied by their parents)
banned genital mutilation on intersex children
banned conversion therapies
provided state support for lesbians and single women seeking IVF treatment
South Korea : ruled in favor of a gay couple demanding equal health insurance rights with heterosexual couples, recognizing the legal status of gay couples for the first time in the country
Slovakia : no longer requires a chirurgical procedure to transition
Cook islands : decriminalized homosexuality
Portugal : passed a law banning conversion therapies and reinforcing gender identity self-determination in schools
France : HIV positive people can now enlist in the army
Taiwan : opened adoption to same-sex couples
Mexico : issued its first non-binary passport
Cyprus : banned conversion therapies
Namibia : supreme court ruling recognizes same-sex mariages contracted in other countries
Edelgard to other students she doesn’t know personally:
Edelgard’s opponents to other students they don’t know personally:
Edelgard to defeated enemy leaders:
Edelgard’s opponents to defeated enemy leaders:
More of Edelgard to defeated enemy leaders:
More of Edelgard’s opponents to defeated enemy leaders:
Edelgard when she has her enemies cornered:
Edelgards opponents when they have their enemies cornered:
Mercy as much as possible is a repeating theme of her interactions. Edelgard might have started the war, but every indication is that she’s limiting the bloodshed as much as possible. This is not reciprocated by her opponents.
Edelgard to other students she doesn’t know personally:
Edelgard’s opponents to other students they don’t know personally:
Edelgard to defeated enemy leaders:
Edelgard’s opponents to defeated enemy leaders:
More of Edelgard to defeated enemy leaders:
More of Edelgard’s opponents to defeated enemy leaders:
Edelgard when she has her enemies cornered:
Edelgards opponents when they have their enemies cornered:
Mercy as much as possible is a repeating theme of her interactions. Edelgard might have started the war, but every indication is that she’s limiting the bloodshed as much as possible. This is not reciprocated by her opponents.
The one involving Dimitri torturing Randolph. He was mad at that point. He was not a rational human in that moment. The one with Claude in saving Derdriu: That was literally the only option. If he wanted Leicester to survive, He had to defeat Edelgard.
Personally, I hate that top one but that’s just because I love Judith and killing her made me hate Edelgard so much.
Anyway, I disagree that Edelgard is super merciful and the others aren’t. I don’t like her at all, so I am biased, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.
P.S: Oh, and almost whenever Edelgard talks about enemies surrendering she sounds like a bit of an asshole.
Dimitri being mad doesn’t excuse his attempts to torture the man to death. Or any of his prior actions of killing innocent people.
Like I agree, Claude does everything for his ambition and in most cases. Keeping Leicester around is needed. It why in CF he puts his own people at risk with his schemes as he creates a guerrilla warfare situation in a heavily crowed area. (The translation tries to sand off his edges when it comes to him being morally grey which sucks and it the main reason behind the divide in the community.)
Edelgard being the most merciful is a sad irony because despite her starting a war, she will ways prefer the least bloodshed option unless she is forced to kill due to her opponent. And it a running theme throughout her bosses in both games. Especially with the Kingdom as with the exception of Ashe. All of them actively chose to fight to the death either for revenge or heavy country pride.
For that last bit. Edelgard does fight to the death for the pride of her country? Literally everybody in this game does? Edelgard is no diffrent from any of the house leaders. She’s morally grey just like all the other. In this game, Literally nobody is a good guy. Also, Edelgard never gives the other groups actual acceptable surrender terms. She never told the Alliance for example “Stop fighting us and we’ll stop fighting you.”. She literally wouldn’t settle for anything less than destroying the Kingdom and Alliance. Dimitri gave her fairly acceptable surrender terms and she rejected them outright. Edelgard is not a beacon of reason and mercy compared to the others. And once again, doesn’t really effect her actual character but does make me hate her is just that she sounds like an asshole. Like, that conversation with Dimitri at the end of Azure Moon. She is just insufferable.
Anyway, I personally hate her. I get why others like her, but I don’t. Playing Crimson Flower was an honestly awful experience(Mostly because I had to kill my favourites and that it was badly written, but also because I dislike Edelgard.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Have a good day.
“Also, Edelgard never gives the other groups actual acceptable surrender terms. She never told the Alliance for example “Stop fighting us and we’ll stop fighting you.”.
Except she did, she sent around a manifesto to ever lord and their mother about her motives and the reason behind the war. ( I do wish 3 House gave us the ability to read it. )
She made it actively clear to her everyone that if either don’t get in her or that raise your sword against her. She won’t consider you an enemy. But also making it clear to her enemies that she won’t kill you if you either surrender or lose the battle.
This even extends to both Rhea and Dimitri in CF where dialogue makes it clear, Edelgard would rather not kill them until they force her hand.
Rhea burned down Fhirdiad with all civilians living inside just to make it a living hell for Edelgard as Rhea puts it.
Whilst Dimitri is out for blood in CF. The translation tried to get rid of this detail but there still dialogue making this point clear. if Edelgard doesn’t kill Dimitri and his commanders or win the battle of Tailtean plains.
The Empire is going to innocently genocide because the Kingdom are out for blood due to the Tragedy of Duscur. It why Dimitri takes in Rhea forcing Edelgard to go through him first.
“She literally wouldn’t settle for anything less than destroying the Kingdom and Alliance.”
Both games shows this sorta isn’t the case but also it being complex. Yes Edelgard wants a unite Fodlan. From a political understand. Unity within a country, business or politics is better then a disjointed one.
But she is willing to accept deal as seen with the Alliance remaining a thing in SB.
The reason why it doesn’t happen in 3 House is entirely Claude because he has his own plans and ambitions along side him wanting to be the ring leader.
But you are sorta right when it comes to the Kingdom. Edelgard want to get rid of the Kingdom because of the toxic culture within it, their absolute loyalty to the crest and castle system. Something Edelgard wants to get rid of. And lastly, them basically being the Church 3rd party attack dog.
If Edelgard kept them around, she would be shooting herself in the foot because the nobility there are going to revolt because they are either corrupt or fanatic about the crest system.
“Dimitri gave her fairly acceptable surrender terms and she rejected them outright.”
Except he didn’t. Dimitri doesn’t understand the situation around and his term of surrender is give up on your ideals or die. That is what he does in the end cuts scene because on hand is a lance pointed at Edelgard. The other is a open hand.
“Like, that conversation with Dimitri at the end of Azure Moon. She is just insufferable.”
I’m the opposite because the entire conversation made me hate Dimitri after replaying the game and understanding more of the story because Dimitri argument is hypocritical. He calls Edelgard for pushing your ideals on others but that is what you do when you are a leader.
That is also what Dimitri has done through out AM. He torture and killed innocent people, then opposed a war, never trying to understand the reasoning behind the war but instead does so under disagreement. Dimitri has push his ideal throughout the entire route.
His argument are quite stupid if you don’t buy into his character because they are actively negative.
He doesn’t people can be strong by their own. Believing they need other help which is inherently flawed. Which is what separates him from Edelgard as she does believe in people potential. That you just have to create the situation for them to achieve while for other giving them a hand.
“Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Have a good day.”
Hope you have a nice day as well.
Just going to respond one last time.
She could have founded her meritocracy without a war. She literally could have just done what she wanted with Adrestia. She didn’t need to force her will and worldview on everybody else.
Except that she couldn’t. Her father tried that and got turned into a political puppet. Dimitri’s own father was going to try that too and he got murdered. Further more, Rhea makes it clear that anyone who goes against the church’s teachings will be gotten rid of. What Edelgard wants is the opposite of the status quo Rhea wants to maintain. Like what happened to the Southern Church. That’s also not counting the civil war that would result in the empire from Edelgard’s reforms. Or the Kingdom and Alliance coming to invade to stop their own common people from getting ideas. Edelgard invades to ensure she’s not going to be on the back foot when her enemies come calling.
reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck
her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability…
i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.
they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN
fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving
seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
